The ViewSonic VP150m is one of the pricier models here, but its pivot feature and image quality are good enough to make this monitor worth considering.

By LCD monitor standards, the ViewSonic VP150m is large and clunky. That's partly because of a heavy-duty base that lets you adjust the panel's height and rotate it between landscape and portrait modes. But even without that base, built-in speakers make the monitor larger than most.

There's no trouble with setup, thanks to a detailed manual. The VP150m can accommodate both an analog and digital cable simultaneously, so you can connect the monitor to two different computers and switch between them. And the auto-sync feature set the size, position, and phase for analog mode perfectly on our tests, eliminating the need to adjust the image manually.

Image quality was good but not perfect. In color ramps, which should change gradually, we saw discontinuities in both analog and digital modes. And we experienced an odd problem with viewing angles: When looking at the screen head on, we saw fewer shades of gray than when viewing from an angle. In most other ways, however, the monitor fared well, showing little or no jitter, even in analog mode.

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